Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 77: Handshake

It was already the next morning when Mike woke up from his sleep. He pushed open the door of his dormitory and came to the Ravenclaw common room, where he saw a group of girls, led by the Head Girl, removing the portrait of Lockhart from the Wall of Fame.

Lockhart's portrait was completely different from his usual flamboyant self, and he screamed and tried to stop the girls. However, as a magical portrait, it obviously couldn't affect the real world, and he could only helplessly watch as he was removed from the wall of fame.

Amid the gloating laughter of the other portraits, the female student union president took the lead and stomped hard on the portrait, making a big hole in Lockhart's chest.

Then the other girls came forward and kicked the portrait one by one, and soon the portrait was completely disfigured.

Mike pulled a boy who was watching the fun on the side to ask about the situation, and then he found out why the girls were so angry.

It turned out that after Professor Flitwick took Lockhart to Dumbledore to question him yesterday, Lockhart was not punished too severely. He was only deducted one month's salary.

This made the Ravenclaw girls very angry, and thus the scene just now happened.

Carefully bypassing the girls who were still venting, Mike came to the library area in the Ravenclaw common room, ready to look for the historical records of Rowena, Ms. Ravenclaw.

Originally, if one wanted to check such records, one should go to the Hogwarts library, but Ravenclaw was completely different from other colleges in this regard.

Since there is a library area in the Ravenclaw Common Room, a large number of books on the history of Ravenclaw are collected here, and the level of detail of the information is far greater than that of the Hogwarts school library.

However, after searching the library for a long time, Mike still couldn't find the information he wanted. There was very little information about Rowena Ravenclaw, and the information Mike had found so far only recorded a little history of Rowena Ravenclaw before her death.

Lady Rowena Ravenclaw had a magical tiara that increased the wisdom of its wearer, but her daughter Helena, hungry for wisdom and greedy for knowledge, stole her mother's tiara and fled to the forests of Albania.

After being betrayed by her daughter, Rowena Ravenclaw became depressed and fell seriously ill. But she did not blame her daughter, but concealed the fact that Helena had stolen the tiara from others. Because she wanted to see her daughter before she died, Rowena entrusted the Slytherin student, Baron, to find Helena.

However, Barrow killed Helena and then committed suicide. The crown was never heard from again, and Rowena died of depression.

This story is widely circulated within Ravenclaw because it mentions the lost artifact of Ravenclaw, the crown.

But apart from that, there is very little information about Ravenclaw in the library section, especially about things before she founded Hogwarts. There is only a short sentence that resembles an introduction: "She is the breeze from the lakeside."

Just as Mike was searching for information in the sea of ​​books, a familiar voice interrupted him.

"Mike, what are you looking for?"

Mike looked back and saw little Hermione looking at him curiously. Instead of answering her question, he replied, "Isn't this my dear Hermione? How come you have time to come to Ravenclaw today?"

"Oh, it's like this, do you know what the antidote to the Slug Curse is? Ron wanted to curse Malfoy, but because his wand was broken by the Whomping Willow, the curse backfired on him. Now he's spitting out slugs non-stop." Hermione said anxiously.

Mike certainly knew the solution to the Slug Curse. Professor Flitwick had taught Mike many solutions to mischief spells last school year, and the Slug Curse was one of them. But Mike didn't plan to tell Hermione, after all, he didn't like Ron. Besides, spitting out slugs wouldn't kill anyone, so he would get used to it after a while.

"I'm sorry Hermione, maybe you should go find Percy or George and Fred, they must know." Mike shrugged and said, "By the way, why did Ron suddenly think of provoking Malfoy?"

"Because Malfoy said I was a mudblood..." Hermione paused halfway through her speech as if she saw something, "Wait, what is that? Is it a portrait of Lockhart? No! What are they doing!"

After saying that, he rushed into the crowd that was destroying Lockhart's portrait and pushed away a girl who was laughing and stepping on the portrait.

The girl who was pushed away took a few steps back and was about to fall to the ground, but was supported by the girls around her.

The Head Girl stepped out of the crowd, poked Hermione's forehead with her finger and said, "As a Gryffindor, who allowed you to break into the Ravenclaw common room and hurt an innocent Ravenclaw student? Deduct 30 points from Gryffindor!"

Hermione's little head was shaking from being poked. When she heard that she was deducted points, her eyes turned red with anger. She reached out and knocked the female student union president's hand away, ready to refute.

However, Mike also squeezed in at this time, covered Hermione's mouth with his hand, and said to the Head Girl Student Union: "Oh, beautiful lady. This is all a misunderstanding. Hermione is my friend and she is here as a guest of Ravenclaw this time."

"Yes, Carol. Just let her go this time." Penelope stood up at some point and while talking to the female student union president, she pointed her finger at her head and made a face, indicating that Hermione's brain was not in good condition.

The female student union president ignored Penelope and instead stared at Mike without blinking.

After an unknown amount of time, she changed her angry look, smiled brightly at Mike and said, "Mike! Professor Flitwick's favorite student! I have heard of your name for a long time."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand.

Mike said something self-deprecating as he reached out and took the hand she extended.

Mike started laughing as soon as he shook the female student union president's hand. The female student union president's hand was in a very strange position with her ring finger curled up, which made Mike uncomfortable.

This is a handshake unique to Raven's Nest, used to recognize other members secretly in public.

Mike quickly reacted and bent his ring finger on the hand he was holding with hers, overlapping it with hers. Feeling the special touch in his palm, Mike and the female student union president looked at each other, and everything was said without words.

Article 1 of the Raven's Nest Rules: Members must do their best to help each other without infringing on their own interests.

Mike knew that this time the matter was definitely settled.

(End of this chapter)